[PATCH] eal/windows: define standard file numbers

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Oct 10 13:39:34 CEST 2024


On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 01:43:41PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> 2024-10-10 10:54 (UTC+0100), Bruce Richardson:
> > The macros for STD*_FILENO are missing on windows. Add defines for them
> > to the DPDK-local unistd.h file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/eal/windows/include/unistd.h | 11 +++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/eal/windows/include/unistd.h b/lib/eal/windows/include/unistd.h
> > index 6b33005b24..78150c6480 100644
> > --- a/lib/eal/windows/include/unistd.h
> > +++ b/lib/eal/windows/include/unistd.h
> > @@ -12,4 +12,15 @@
> >  
> >  #include <io.h>
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * Windows appears to be missing STD*_FILENO macros, so define here.
> > + * For simplicity, assume that if STDIN_FILENO is missing, all are,
> > + * rather than checking each individually.
> > + */
> > +#ifndef STDIN_FILENO
> > +#define STDIN_FILENO _fileno(stdin)
> > +#define STDOUT_FILENO _fileno(stdout)
> > +#define STDERR_FILENO _fileno(stderr)
> > +#endif
> > +
> >  #endif /* _UNISTD_H_ */
> 
> Why is this needed?
> There are 3 users of STD*_FILENO within DPDK:
> * lib/eal/unix/eal_debug.c - not for Windows, obviously
> * app/dumpcap - not for Windows, requires multi-process
> * app/proc-info - not for Windows, requires multi-process
> * examples/l2fwd-cat - not for Windows, requires <pqos.h>

https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240822104109.116208-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com/

This merged patch is now throwing errors about the missing defines on
Windows.

/Bruce


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